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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">PRN DATA 
FILE FORMAT</span></b></h2>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black">This 
format has the same features and restrictions that the CSV format, the 
difference is the separator between fields in PRN format are spaces. However, 
the spaces in PRN format have a different role than in CVS files.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black">&nbsp;</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black">The 
characteristics of these files are the following</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black">:&nbsp;</span></p>
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		The first record in a PRN file may be a header record containing name of 
		the columns.</span></li>
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		Each record in a file with headers in columns can have less fields than 
		the number of headers. In this case, empty values are considered missing 
		values.</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black">Each row 
		must have the same number of fields separated by spaces.</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black">Several 
		spaces together will be treated as a single space.</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black">The spaces 
		at the beginning or end of the line indicated null values.</span></li>
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		The separation symbol for decimals numbers is a point instead of a 
		comma.</span></li>
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		<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times New Roman">Each record 
is one line terminated by a newline character or a carriage return.</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black">The blank 
		lines will be ignored.</span></li>
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		The fields can contain double quote, carriage return (or any other 
		character).</span></li>
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	<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal">Fields that contain 
space character as value must be surounded by double-quotes.</span></strong></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black">A record 
		with a single field without any value must have the requirements of type 
		text to prevent that it is not ignored.</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black">The last 
		record in a file can be finished or not with the end of line symbol.</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black">These 
files are stored by default, with the extension &quot;.prn&quot;.</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 18.55pt"><b>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black">The PRN 
files have the data separated by blank spaces. So, these data files must have 
the following format:</span></b></p>
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	<table border="1" width="253" height="112">
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			<td height="112" width="253">
			<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
			<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:
    &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;
    mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">attribute<sub>1</sub> attribute<sub>2</sub><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;
			</span>... <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span>attribute<sub>N</sub><br>
			value<sub>11</sub> <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span>value<sub>12</sub>
			<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span>...
			<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span>value<sub>1N</sub><br>
			...<br>
			value<sub>M1</sub> <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span>value<sub>M2</sub><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;
			</span>... <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span>value<sub>MN</sub></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:
    &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#003366;
    mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></i></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 18.55pt">&nbsp;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 18.55pt"><b>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black">One 
example of a valid PRN file is the following:</span></b></p>
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black">&nbsp;</span></i>&nbsp;<div align="center">
	<table border="1" width="209" height="234">
		<tr>
			<td height="234" width="209">
			<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
    normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
    &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
    ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">OBS DELL GE YAHOO<br>
			1 26.99 48.5 22.92<br>
			2 26 49.93 20.83<br>
			3 26.24 49.96 20.13<br>
			4 25.76 49.48 19.98<br>
			5 26.73 49.43 19.74<br>
			6 24.93 49.83 18.86<br>
			7 25.84 49.01 18.23<br>
			8 25.91 49.73 17.79<br>
			9 24.6 50.15 17.1</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
    &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
    ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">
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